A Survey on Scheduling and the Attributes of Task Scheduling in the Cloud

Abstract: Cloud Computing is the latest new trend that is growing rapidly in this era of technological advancements. The word “Cloud’’ is a conglomeration of computers and servers accessed via the Internet and this makes everyone in this world to access their documents and applications from anywhere and at any time. Scheduling is blooming as a vital research area in the field of Cloud Computing .It aims to map the appropriate tasks, jobs to the resources that are available by keeping in mind the QoS (Quality of Service) requirements of the user. The on-demand service in the Cloud is one of the guiding factor to discover new scheduling strategies. This paper surveys on Scheduling, the types of job scheduling algorithms, types of task Scheduling, and the attributes of Task scheduling.

Keywords: Scheduling, Scheduling procedure, Job Scheduling, Task Scheduling, Attributes of Task Scheduling.